Quotes About Ambition

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.

I'm a business person at heart.

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business.

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

I didn't get into this business for other people to know my name.

Don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else.

Show business got really tainted for me.

In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

I have this mistress: show business.